From: tage.westlund@stockholm.mail.telia.com (Tage Westlund) Subject: Re: Another newbie Bash question 30 Oct 1997 16:48:06 -0800 Message-ID: <3459491B.6171.cygnus.gnu-win32@stockholm.mail.telia.com> References: Reply-To: tage.westlund@stockholm.mail.telia.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jmamer@anderson.ucla.edu Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com John Mamer wrote: > > #!/bin/sh > echo -n "First variable: " > read VAR1 > echo -n "Secnd variable: " > > it reads the first variable, and then skips > through the second two reads. > Is there some way to flush the keyboard buffer between > reads? To John! There is a simple "flush": echo -n First variable: read VAR1; read echo -n Secnd variable: read VAR2; read echo -n Third variable: read VAR3; read echo "The variables were: $VAR1 $VAR2 $VAR3" Tage - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".